Altara Raises $7M to Accelerate Scientific and Industrial Breakthroughs with Agentic AI

San Francisco startup Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Jeff Dean, to build an AI platform that unifies fragmented technical data for hardware-intensive industries including batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices. Founded in 2025 by Eva Tuecke, a former Fermilab physicist and […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 7, 2026 — Aramco and IBM have announced their intended collaboration on opportunities to advance artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, material science and other mutually agreed […] The post IBM and Aramco Announce Planned Collaboration on Industrial AI Applications appeared first on AIwire.

The tech giant said the update is the first purpose-built payment capability for autonomous agents.

Insider Brief Spirit AI and Bosch China announced a strategic partnership focused on bringing embodied AI systems into industrial environments, combining Spirit AI’s robotics foundation models with Bosch’s manufacturing and automation infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership is aimed at accelerating deployment of what Spirit AI describes as a “universal brain” for robots — […]

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) takes place in just a few weeks. Everyone expects the company to explain its approach to AI deployment on its platforms. With that in mind, here’s what several months of speculation suggest Apple will announce, though the details remain to be disclosed. Apple is investing billions of dollars in these plans; R&D spending reached 10.3% of revenue in the second quarter, up from 7.6% in Q1. Given Apple’s accelerating revenue, on a dollar basis this means the company’s R&D spend is up 34% from a year ago. “We believe AI is a really important investment area for Apple, and we’re going to be doing that incrementally on top of what we normally invest in our product roadmap,” said Apple CFO Kevan Parekh during Apple’s latest fiscal call. (AI isn’t Apple’s only spending target, either.) While the billions Apple is investing are dwarfed by the huge infrastructure investments made by pure AI players, Apple’s infrastructure already exists — in the form

IHS's top cyber official says AI will help security teams be more efficient, allowing analysts to work on things "we really don't want agentic AI to do.”

Medication non‑adherence remains one of health care’s most persistent and expensive challenges. Across chronic conditions, only about half of patients take medications as prescribed, even when effective treatments are available. The consequences are significant: disease progression, avoidable hospitalizations, increased mortality, and hundreds of billions of dollars in preventable health care [...] The post From predicting risk to changing behavior: Rethinking medication adherence with agentic AI appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.